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by tdoggette 18y ago
Those faces are deep, DEEP in the uncanny valley, but they're not falling in, they're climbing out.
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by tdoggette 18y ago
>Thereby making both highways have less traffic. The fact >that people come when capacity is improved shows that you're >lessening the load on other roads! Yeah: on other roads whose traffic problem was not as bad as the one yo
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by tdoggette 18y ago
I haven't heard any legends. Does anyone speak of the web sites of yore in such a way that they could be called legends?
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by tdoggette 18y ago
This page seems to be a discussion of the applicability of music analogies to programming. It was not a useful or insightful read, but it might be if someone were to organize their thoughts on the topic.
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by tdoggette 18y ago
It takes a very good post to make me subscribe to someone's blog, especially an Apple person's blog, but this is high-quality Tognazzini-level musing on interface design. Better, even: Modern, web-focused.
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by tdoggette 18y ago
thesixtyone.com, a social music site, has a clever way of dealing with this: You can "bump" a song, but it costs you "points," which you see a return on if the song becomes popular. It turns upward momentum into a currency instead of someth
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by tdoggette 18y ago
I can't type a capital T in the room I'm in. Some autosuggest thing keeps trying to turn it into the same of someone in the room that starts with lowercase t. Might I suggest a more standard tab-completion system?
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by tdoggette 18y ago
Perhaps add a "lobby" room on the dashboard page with no particular topic? That'd show 'em. Also, showing more tips hides the input box. It prevents people from being sure they're implementing tips right, and adds more complexity to saying
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by tdoggette 18y ago
/ Right to left precedence: 3*2+5 / yields 21 Why should I learn this language that I've never heard of if it can't even do math in any sensible way? Not left-to-right, not order of operations, not lisp-like prefix. Who thought that was a g
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by tdoggette 18y ago
Who distributes things as .ps files anyway? Terrorists, that's who.
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by tdoggette 18y ago
He's not wrong. Apple's garden-walling was become extensive enough that it's gone beyond ensuring a good experience for their users, and has started to damage the platform. This should have been obvious to them since jailbreaking became so
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by tdoggette 18y ago
It looks interesting, but it might be better to do a little more handholding on getting users started, instead of just having the list of directions. Maybe handpick a market and put it up top and ask people to predict on it, before even reg
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by tdoggette 18y ago
The visualization here is excellent, and I love watching how a link spreads through the little ecosystem of linkers of different sizes. However, I am very concerned about the headline, which suggests that HN is the most interesting part of
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by tdoggette 18y ago
I concur on the name being-- well, awful. The design, too, is not great. Branding overall, poor. /Product/, though: It's wicked good. Useful, possibly profitable, easy. You could carve out a niche here. Froogle has never achieved dominance
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by tdoggette 18y ago
...for certain values of "stupid."
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by tdoggette 18y ago
I didn't go so far as to read the article behind the wall, but the upshot is this: 1) On the Internet, people read selectively, to pick out the information that they want. 2)If people find communication to be more efficient by using languag
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by tdoggette 18y ago
The search box is a little off in FF3/Ubuntu-- the rounded corners bit is smaller than the actual input field. http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff241/tdoggette/Screensho...
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by tdoggette 18y ago
That question is rhetorical everywhere but here.
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by tdoggette 18y ago
I know it sounds crazy, but something like *chan-style "threading" could be useful. Each post on that software has a number in its header, and saying ">>123456" provides an anchor link to the above post. Clicking on the number in th
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by tdoggette 18y ago
I'd probably browse the web and read news feeds. In addition, I'd watch video, program, play games, and use IRC. I'd also set up scripts in the background to copy files from one HDD to another ad infinitum because I'd feel bad having all of
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by tdoggette 18y ago
The short answer: It's not better. It's basically a clone of MS Office pre-2007, which is what everyone is using anyway. When the time comes to change, it'll be to the next version of Office, which will, by that time, be the standard, and O
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by tdoggette 18y ago
It's important to make clear that this form does more things than every other form in the world that looks like it. Also, there's a reason why "confirm password" is a standard -- unless you're sending them their password plaintext afterward
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by tdoggette 18y ago
It's an interesting read, but it's just a list-- It begs for someone to write an essay or book on the topic, and that's really what it deserves.